The Wide World of Professional Volleyball Is Coming To America
Athletes Unlimited is about to start a new professional volleyball league, and the games will be easy to find.
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column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns
Like so many other sports, volleyball has a far different reputation internationally than it does in the U.S. Perhaps the biggest difference is that it’s widely played by both men and women; plus, its ever-popular beach iterations and the more-clad indoor editions both garner enough attention to justify professional competition.